November 16, 2008 at 3 PM
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
Sam Quintal, viola
Rachel Henderson, cello
Bunch: Lament for clarinet and strings
Ligeti: String quartet No. 1, Métamorphoses Nocturnes
Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for clarinet and strings
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Jasper String Quartet
Fresh from winning four of chamber music’s most prestigious prizes — the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Silver Medal at the 2008 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs 2008, and the Grand Prize at the 2008 Coleman competition — the Jasper String Quartet is currently the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, where they study with the Tokyo String Quartet.
Formed at Oberlin Conservatory in 2003, the Jasper String Quartet recently graduated from Rice University’s graduate quartet program, where they studied with James Dunham, Norman Fischer and Kenneth Goldsmith. Career highlights include appearances at the Kennedy Center, Paul Hall, Aspen’s Harris Hall, the Vigeland Museum (Oslo, Norway), the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music and Santa Fe Pro Musica Series. They are dedicated to presenting contemporary music and standard repertoire to a broad audience and have collaborated with pianists, vocalists, dancers, and visual artists.
The Jaspers attended the Aspen Music Festival’s Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, the Emerson Quartet International Chamber Music Workshop, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. As representatives of the 9th Banff International Quartet Competition, they embarked on “guerilla chamber music,” performing concerts in unusual settings around Alberta.
The Jasper Quartet is named for Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.
For more information, please visit www.jasperquartet.com.
Gilad Harel
A native of Israel, clarinetist Gilad Harel is an avid chamber music player, a new music promoter and an active klezmer/world music performer. He can be heard in New York’s most prestigious concert halls, and in its downtown jazz/world music clubs.
Co-Artistic director of Fountain Chamber Music Society, New York, Gilad Harel is also the clarinetist of the Proteus and the Fountain Ensembles. He is performing with the Manhattan Sinfonitta, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, the New York Art Ensemble, America’s Dream Chamber Artists, and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New Millennium Ensemble, Sospeso Ensemble and the Zephyros Wind Ensemble.
Gilad Harel plays Cuban music with the Quinteto Roberto Rodriguez, and Klezmer music with Klezshop and the Metropolitan Klezmer Orchestra.
As an instructor, Gilad Harel is on the Faculty at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and the Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn. This summer, he is invited to be on the faculty at the XI International Summer Course in Shropshire, UK.
Gilad Harel is a graduate of the Juilliard School, New York, the Paris National Conservatory, Paris, and the Israeli Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv.